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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Camp Madii Lii is located at the entrance to Luutkudziiwus territory within the Gitxsan Nation. On Aug. 26, 2014, access to the territory was closed to all LNG traffic and other unauthorized industrial activity, and the Luutkudziiwus Territorial Management Plan was enacted.

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For a couple days now a woman has been sitting in a tree on Bainbridge Island to block the construction of a mini-mall and to protect the trees the would be clear cut and the ecosystem that would be devastated. We noticed that despite the media spectacle and the police presence there was really no one watching the woods. Dawning black from head to toe in the bright light of day we spiked about 1/8th of the trees with ceramic rods.

Now some of you may say that tree spiking is dangerous, but only one worker has ever been hurt by a tree spike and he admitted that it was due to the poor safety conditions at the mill he worked at. Metal, rocks, and the like get caught on trees all the time. The most common of these is barbed wire which has mutilated many-a-worker, but something no one seems to complain about. This is probably because people care more about property than another lifeforms well-being.

The Secwepemc have established a monitoring checkpoint and encampment at the entrance of the Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley Mine where, on August 4th 2014, the largest environmental disaster in British Columbia’s history unfolded as the damn to the mine’s tailings pond broke and unleashed 2.5 billion gallons of contaminated water and 4.5 million cubic metres of metals laden silt into Hazeltine Creek, Polley Lake and Quesnel Lake on the way to the Fraser River Watershed.

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Gas pumps at a Chevron station in Vancouver are locked up, Aug 21, 2014.

The morning of August 21st 2014 we took action to shut down 4 Chevron stations including 80 individual gas and diesel pumps in Vancouver. More will follow if Chevron continues to push through the Pacific Trails Pipeline without the consent of the Unist’ot’en people.